To have children or not to have children, that is the question

My children are my eyes my soul. They are little pieces of my hart running around on this earth, while I try to give them protection of the dangers as much as I can. I love them the most in the world above anything, even above my Husband. 

But still, live would have been fine without them.  I am able to enjoy live on my own, they are not the sole reason to live. But now I have them, I would die for them, if nessesary.

I fear the future, as many people do. I can feel the fear with any desision taken on political scale. Walls to build, brexit Europe, right wing parties getting into power, war in Syria, Yemen and many things that don’t make the main news give me this feeling. Famine and drought will cause people to move, and the haves, like me, want to protect their offspring.  I fear famine for my children or that they need to fight for theirs lives. Why do I fear this? Where did this come from. What do I want to protect them from?  

I reality, many people in the world haven’t had it as good as we have it now. We have enough food to feed the world. With genetic engineering we could have enough food several times over. Technology is moving fast to cure more diseases, to have whatever a human needs, and money should not be part of that equation.

The problem is we always want our offspring to have it as good as we have it ourselves or better. While we as humans should thrive to have enough for everybody. Our primal fear that their isn’t enough for our children drives us apart.

To have children or not to have children? Without them this fear wouldn’t be there in my opinion. This drive for more and fear there won’t be enough, would become less.